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Originally Posted by Angua
What is needed are more properly organised sites. Those we have locally run by the council work extreemly well. Taxes are paid and the people who live there make a valued contribution to the locale (one local school lost their star performer when the family went on the road again).
Unfortunately Mrs T recinded the law which forced councils to provide properly organised sites so now we have an excess of need to provision. So we end up with illegal occupation of land. Sites going in inappropriate places and all round bad feeling.
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There are many council provided sites laying empty, some even where travellers have left a legal site to set up an illegal one.
Other incidents have included situations where sites provided with coin meter electricity supplies, the travellers have bypassed these in order to obtain free electricity.
If more sites are to be provided, then the travellers should use all the current ones, and use them properly and within the law.
Law abiding travellers already do this, and so don't have a problem.